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  1. come to termsverb

    to reach an agreement or settle a dispute.

  2. come to termsverb

    See come to terms with.

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  1. come to terms

    to understand and accept ones personal conflict with a tragic or traumatic emotional event such as a grieving loss from death or unmercifully taken from oneself.

    "He has yet to come to terms with the loss of his children."


    Submitted by anonymous on June 24, 2014  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of come to terms in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of come to terms in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of come to terms in a Sentence

  1. Ursula Le Guin:

    You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

  2. Juanita Broaddrick:

    Like Hillary, I want to be in denial that these things could happen because I felt like that was n’t the person that I had known. But when I met [ Broaddrick ] the first time, I realized she was a very genuine person and had no reason to lie about that, i had to come to terms with the fact that he was very capable and did do that. Why should n’t he be prosecuted for rape as Bill Cosby has and Harvey Weinstein was just arrested ?

  3. Taylor West:

    The federal government is going to have to come to terms with the fact that voters have chosen a different way to handle this drug.

  4. Lucinda Williams:

    I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

  5. Mayor James Knowles:

    There are a lot of things in that report that are very troubling and need to be addressed, but there are also things that are an overreach, our hope is those negotiations lead to mutual satisfaction. But if we cannot come to terms... we are not going to settle.

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